Some may think us mad but Pete and I like to spend an evening ‘taste testing’ - OK well not really as that would be just sad and we’d need to get out more. We really do have a life, honest…
I digress… when I met Pete I knew he had a penchant for saving money by buying own brand products, quite the opposite of me who was Miss Trusted-Label and fell for all the advertising spiel that own label stuff was bad, high priced designer labels = good.
Did love conquer all? Did I talk him into coming to the dark side? Did I heck – the recession hit and I decided to curb my designer dreams and get Value Shopping…
Now, I don’t know if you’re the same, but value own brand ranges just seem, well, inferior. The stark whiteness of the packs with a low-key (cheap looking) logo affixed onto them like a beacon in your trolley. Lets take Tesco as a good example, those little white cartons with the blue and red stripy label – lots of those in your trolley scream “I’m poor!!” don’t they? Or are we all changing our buying habits and blue and white stripy is the new designer label?
Taste Test Number One
Tesco kicks off our taste test round up…
I like Philadelphia Cheese, nothing better than Philly, on wholemeal bread and a tomato – as sandwiches go, totally yummy. At around £1.49 a tub my Philly habit was expensive.
Last week, Pete was let loose at the supermarket and bought, horror of horrors Tesco Value Cream Cheese – yuk!!! I was horrified and vowed to do the 14 mile round trip back to Tesco to change it.
He suggested a taste test, so dutifully I put on the blindfold (yes indeed you get so far into a relationship and silk blindfolds are only used for Tesco Taste Tests…sigh…).
Firstly I tasted spoon A, a lovely cream cheese taste, sucked from the edge of a teaspoon. It was creamy, and had a pleasant taste to it, all in all very nice. Then for spoon B – totally creamier, much smoother without the acidic edge to it. I knew spoon B was the winner.
Pete let me rant on for a while about how good spoon B was and how I would NEVER change from a trusted brand name, and how dare he make me try…
Yeah you guessed it – spoon B was Tesco Value.
At around 45p a tub, it goes well with ‘humble pie’ ……
More taste tests to follow soon.
I digress… when I met Pete I knew he had a penchant for saving money by buying own brand products, quite the opposite of me who was Miss Trusted-Label and fell for all the advertising spiel that own label stuff was bad, high priced designer labels = good.
Did love conquer all? Did I talk him into coming to the dark side? Did I heck – the recession hit and I decided to curb my designer dreams and get Value Shopping…
Now, I don’t know if you’re the same, but value own brand ranges just seem, well, inferior. The stark whiteness of the packs with a low-key (cheap looking) logo affixed onto them like a beacon in your trolley. Lets take Tesco as a good example, those little white cartons with the blue and red stripy label – lots of those in your trolley scream “I’m poor!!” don’t they? Or are we all changing our buying habits and blue and white stripy is the new designer label?
Taste Test Number One
Tesco kicks off our taste test round up…
I like Philadelphia Cheese, nothing better than Philly, on wholemeal bread and a tomato – as sandwiches go, totally yummy. At around £1.49 a tub my Philly habit was expensive.
Last week, Pete was let loose at the supermarket and bought, horror of horrors Tesco Value Cream Cheese – yuk!!! I was horrified and vowed to do the 14 mile round trip back to Tesco to change it.
He suggested a taste test, so dutifully I put on the blindfold (yes indeed you get so far into a relationship and silk blindfolds are only used for Tesco Taste Tests…sigh…).
Firstly I tasted spoon A, a lovely cream cheese taste, sucked from the edge of a teaspoon. It was creamy, and had a pleasant taste to it, all in all very nice. Then for spoon B – totally creamier, much smoother without the acidic edge to it. I knew spoon B was the winner.
Pete let me rant on for a while about how good spoon B was and how I would NEVER change from a trusted brand name, and how dare he make me try…
Yeah you guessed it – spoon B was Tesco Value.
At around 45p a tub, it goes well with ‘humble pie’ ……
More taste tests to follow soon.
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